{"id":2326,"date":"2014-12-30T05:20:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2014-12-03T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T22:00:10","slug":"drop-stuff-to-land-a-job-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/drop-stuff-to-land-a-job-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop the “Stuff” to Land a Job in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"networking\"It’s time to drop the “stuff.” \u00a0It’s time to get real, get personal and talk to people.<\/p>\n

As you look forward to 2015, no doubt you are assessing what’s ahead, planning how to be more effective and determining what you need to do to land your next position. \u00a0And, all that is great . . . however, you also need to drop the “stuff.” \u00a0You know the stuff — the time wasters, the excuses and the mask (all those sophisticated ways you are hoping will\u00a0influence people and help you land a job).<\/p>\n

What is the one of the biggest time wasters? \u00a0Surfing the web and job boards. \u00a0Get started by cutting the time you spend surfing by 50%.<\/p>\n

Excuses? \u00a0The most common ones include: \u00a0a bad economy, your\u00a0age, or your\u00a0last salary. \u00a0Drop them. \u00a0Whatever time you are spending discussing, thinking or worrying about these matters cut the time by 75%. \u00a0By doing so, you now have more time to (authentically) talk to people.<\/p>\n

Drop your mask and get real with yourself. \u00a0Identify your unique value, name it and embrace it. \u00a0Then, share your unique value all the time, in all modes of communication.<\/p>\n

Next, go where people are gathered and share your value. \u00a0Make it your goal to have short focused personal conversations with 200% more people than you did last year.<\/p>\n

Searching for a new job can take a long time — sometimes up to two or three years — and many people get frustrated by the length of time it takes. \u00a0If you want to avoid this frustration or can’t afford to draw out your search for years you need to –you guessed it — drop the “stuff!”<\/p>\n

One of the fastest ways to accelerate your search is to talk to more people.<\/p>\n

Bottom line, it takes between 150 and 160 conversations about what you do and your value to land an interview. \u00a0If you are only talking to 5 people a week, it will take you 30 weeks to talk to enough people to land an interview.<\/p>\n

If you talked to 50 people this week and shared your value and what you do with only 5 people, you missed 45 opportunities. \u00a0On the bright side,\u00a0if you confidently shared your value with all 50 people you shorten the time to land an interview from 30 weeks to 3 weeks.<\/p>\n

Want to accelerate your search? \u00a0Talk to more people.<\/p>\n

How many people will you talk to this week? \u00a0Will you drop the “stuff?”<\/p>\n

Will you get personal and share your unique value and what you do?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s time to drop the “stuff.” \u00a0It’s time to get real, get personal and talk to people. As you look forward to 2015, no doubt you are assessing what’s ahead, planning how to be more effective and determining what you need to do to land your next position. \u00a0And, all that is great . . […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,94],"tags":[9,5,10],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-search-focus","category-mindset","tag-accelerate-your-search","tag-focus","tag-job-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}